We don't have any business manipulating governments... no ones saying... But do we have a responsibility to protect other sovereign nations populaces if they their governments cannot protect their own citizens. It's a doctrine but we're not trying to do to China what we are doing in the middle east so that's a poor analogy with no substantive value..
Nonetheless whats the point of spending all this money on defense if we have no watch over what other nations are doing in the international community. Are you saying we need to pull our embassies out of these nations in the middle east.
Furthermore with your viewpoint I hope you would also strongly support removing virtually any kind of aid to Israel and Egypt. But some people start to go ape shit when the discussion shifts to removing aid from Israel so what are we going to do about that??
no i'd say we have no responsibility to protect people in other countries. that doesn't mean we never should but it's not our responsibility.
when did we ever get into a conflict to protect people? that's the company line from politicians but we have ulterior motives when we do this shit. maybe somali was an example. that didn't work out too well.
my position would be to stay the fuck out unless absolutely necessary.
as for aid to countries, that's a different matter. if we can give aid to a country or help develop it to secure a good business partner down the road, that makes sense to me.